On Tuesday Stuarts Draft will have to hit the road after three straight games at home. They will venture away from home to take on the Fort Defiance Indians at 7:00 p.m. Both come into the game bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Stuarts Draft will bounce into Tuesday's matchup after beating Riverheads, who they hadn't topped in nine consecutive meetings. Stuarts Draft came out on top against Riverheads by a score of 3-1 on Thursday. The win was a breath of fresh air for the Cougars as it put an end to their four-game losing streak.
Meanwhile, Fort Defiance had already won eight in a row, and they went ahead and made it nine on Monday. They narrowly escaped with a victory as the squad sidled past the Knights 3-2.
Fort Defiance took Turner Ashby into a fifth set where they got it done with a 11-point win. After all that action, the final score was 25-20, 13-25, 18-25, 25-19, 15-4.
Fort Defiance's success was the result of a balanced attack that saw several players step up, but Norah Anderson led the charge by getting 11 digs and four aces. Anderson is on a roll when it comes to digs, as she's now had 11 or more in the last four games she's played dating back to last season.
Fort Defiance was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 15 aces. That's the most aces they've posted since back in October of 2023.
Stuarts Draft's record is now 2-5. As for Fort Defiance, they pushed their record up to 10-1 with that win, which was their fifth straight on the road.
Stuarts Draft suffered a grim 3-0 defeat to Fort Defiance in their previous meeting back in October of 2023. Can Stuarts Draft avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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